When you’re buying or building a chicken coop, there are so many factors that you need to take into account. Where will you put the coop? Will you use sand or shavings as bedding? How many ...
Transporting Pigs: Tips and Considerations for Moving Hogs Safely
Are you moving pigs, whether to get them to slaughter or to the 4H show? If so, you’ll need to be smart about how you do it. One of the hardest things about owning a hog is figuring out how to ...
8 Common Causes of Pig Infertility and How to Address Them
If you raise your pigs for meat, the idea of breeding them, either by keeping a boar or through AI breeding, has likely crossed your mind. After all, it is usually much more economical to have your ...
Raising Pigs in Winter vs Summer – How to Decide
In the last few weeks, we have started communicating with our pork customers that we will no longer be providing them with their meat in the fall, as is customary, but in the spring. Very few ...
How Often Should You Deworm Sheep or Is It Even Necessary?
It’s no secret that of all livestock species, sheep and goats tend to be the most susceptible to internal parasites. Some vets will argue that all sheep are always in a state of “worminess” and ...
Chicken Cannibalism: Why It Happens and How Can You Prevent It
Something that always seems to raise my blood pressure is when somebody mentions to me how animals are always kind to each other - that humans are the only species with the capacity to be violent or ...
OJD in Sheep: What Is It, Symptoms, Prevention, and Treatment
A few years ago, a friend of ours' sheep died from a mysterious disease. Whenever my husband came home to tell me about it, he could never remember what it was called. “James disease? Johnson’s ...
4 Tips to Help Your Meat Rabbits Gain Weight Faster and Healthily
Are your meat rabbits looking a little...not so meaty? When you’re raising rabbits as pets, it probably doesn’t matter much to you whether your rabbits are a little on the thin side, as long as ...
Ear Tagging Your Sheep: How to Do It Safely and Correctly
Should you tag your sheep? While there are several reasons farmers might choose not to ear tag their sheep (not having enough time or the costs associated with doing so are two major reasons), ear ...